I love cats with fur, and cats without fur, and cats in hats, and cats that don't even look like cats...

[sniffle]

I'm sorry. I just...I just really love cats.

[wiping eyes]

And...and I just want to hug all of them because I love them but I can't 'cuz that's crazy I can't hug every cat. BUT I WANT TO. You know? I WANT TO HUG EVERY CAT.

[blowing nose]

Um. Wow. Sorry - I got a little emotional there. Heh.

I also like to...to...

[sob]

I'm sorry; I'm thinking about cats again.

I just...I just LOVE them, and I WANT them. I want them in a basket, and I want them in little bow ties, and I want them to be on a rainbow, and I want a house FULL OF CATS and we would all ROLL AROUND...

Ok, you really need to do a Sunday Sweets with cat cakes now, because I'm having trouble remembering what a good cat cake looks like (though it might be like the baby cakes, now that I think about it).

The whisker cake looked good after the other ones. If you don't mind that your cat's eyes are really close together.

Do you think if "Debbie" hugged all these cat cakes, she could tell for sure that they were all cats? I'm pretty sure she would not be the most discrimiating of people. On the other hand, I might even be able to love these cats in a basket, or on a rainbow for that matter, but I didn't notice any. Then again, at this hour I would trade my chance at love for coffee.

Ugh, those are not cute cats. Are they really cats? That video is hilarious. She has other videos that are obviously not real, so I'm sure this one isn't either. I agree with Muria that you need to do a cat Sunday Sweets now!

Am I the only one who took forever to figure out which way was up on the orange cat? Upside down, it just allllllmost looks like it could be a really bad cat cake. It's slightly better right side, up..but only slightly.

I was sobbing and really emotional because I just love Cake wrecks and I want to hug all of the cakes and you and John and Jen 1 and your cats and your other blog, but I can't cuz - well - you live in Florida and if I came down there, you would probably think I was stalking you and call the police and have me arrested and then ... well, I just can't but I love Cake Wrecks and even vital organs.

gtg and get more tissues. Writing comments always makes me so emotional.

I don't condone vivisection, so "A&P" are on my *S*hit list*...so to speak. On the other hand (the one without the black glove),I think that the little kittenish thing, at only 40 cents an ounce, is actually a fine deal, considering the extortionist fees lot of the shelters charge for adoption.

omg I was tempted to comment on some of the other cakes, but when I got to the cat autopsy I had to LOL. must be for med students--with a sick sense of humor! his tail looks fuzzy, the X's on the eyes, the tongue sticking out...I love cats too but that cake is going to make me snicker all day!

oh, that was just the funniest way to start my day. Part of me wants Debbie to be real... and then again maybe not. Did anyone else want her to just yell "they're so fluffy I could die!" (despicable me...)

And WHILE we're at it...I don't actually see why, in the name of all things HolyCRAPish, that girl is getting so much credit. I didn't hear her saying Thing One about her love of CAKE.Where's that, huh? HUH??

Ok, so that video is quite obviously hilarious! And I love cats too.... but, um, apparently not as much as I thought I did based on that. I think I need to find something else that I can love more.... (sigh)

I'm guessing the last one is for veterinarian grads? And that video - regardless of whether it's authentic or not, I actually had a 6th grade student who would get like that whenever she talked about cats... so, yeah. It can happen.

So let's say for a second that you filmed a video where you go on and on about how much you love cats, to the point that you start crying about it. Why would you then post it too the internet??? No one is going to want to date you. Ever!

CRAP- you're not kidding.That twit (that I felt oddly *touched* by and everything) was going for Hollywood? THE Hollywood!?!

As IF!!! Like, I'm so sure big producers are looking for dopey twits who can't say half a sentence without throwing in "UM," and "I just, UM" every half-breath. Totally. Almost as bad as Valley Girl crap. I feel like I've been had!Somebody, throw a cake in her face!Make it an unbaked one!

Gosh, somehow I missed the part about the delicious vital organs in "Debbie's" eHarmony bio. ;-)

It's a good thing the wreckerator used the plastic kitty head on the first cake. Otherwise it would be another pictionary cake for sure.

@Leah 9:38am No, that video isn't for real. If you look at the other videos by HartmannCara, you will see that she is quite the little actress. Here is the url for her video response to her eHarmony video:http://www.youtube.com/user/hartmanncara#p/u/1/bC-VLawI6rcShe really did a good acting job on her eHarmony bio.

Oops, I hadn't read all the comments yet when I posted mine, so I apologize for not naming all the rest of you folks who asked if the video was real. And I missed that John already told you that the video was a spoof.

I agree with Gary that the vivisection cake wins as the best cake of the bunch since you can actually tell that is a cat. Good call Gary.

Doctor Tarr said... Is it wrong for me to laugh at that video even though a cat climbed in my lap while I was watching it?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Not unless your cat was offended by the video, in which case, yes.

Please tell that video is not for real?! Surely she's joking. If not, have her contact me for the name of a good psychiatrist in her area. She definitely has a problem!!As for the cakes, I'm with Muria, I've forgotten what a good one looks like!!!

#1 At first, I thought this was one of those cutesy, crafty things that people hang in their closets that serve absolutely no useful purpose. On realizing it's a CCC, I continued to think it should be hung in a closet.

#2 I'm sensing a violation of child labor laws here.

#3 I'm sensing a violation of the laws of nature here.

#4 I'd have to give this one a pass. Much as I would do if I were at that bakery.

#5 Rather than a contender for the new Tony the Tiger, this is more likely why a new Tony would be needed.

#6 Yikes!!! Those eyes look like they glow in the dark! Note to self: Never shop at the Louis Wain Bakery.

#7 Rumors of cat-dog hybrids are an Internet staple, but here is photographic proof.

#8 Meals don't taste nearly as good when they are re-swallowed, for some odd reason.

That video is a parody, but it isn't hard to imagine that it wouldn't be out of place on many dating sites. As for skepticism that 'Debbie' could make it in Hollyweird; really? The only risk 'Debbie' faces is being taken too seriously.

That last cake is a pretty accurate (if horrifying) rendition of the cats used in A&P. And to whoever said that A&P vivisection is on her sh!t list, they actually arrive dead. They also arrive shaved, but for the tails, head and paws, in a little bag waiting to reveal their secrets to the eager minds of future health care professionals everywhere!

Aron said... "... to whoever said that A&P vivisection is on her sh!t list, they actually arrive dead."~~~Well, that's a cute trick, considering that the practice is, by definition, refering to the use of LIVE specimens:

" Vivisection (from Latin vivus "alive" + sectio "cutting") is defined as surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure."

(Maybe your specimen-delivery person got lost.)

not dead = not vivisection.

I'm just going to file it under "Well-made cakes modeled after touchy subjects."

Oh my goodness, is that video for real??? I LOVE CATS>>>with little bows and want to roll around with them...i totally get that....aaand, i also love to run....I have never heard of such a breakdown...i sat w/ my mouth agape watching that horrific-run-me-over-trainwreck-kinda-make-me-gagalittle-video. Haaahaaahaaa. Oh and the cake choices were great too. :)

The first twenty seconds of the video reminded me of my cousin. Dumb blonde (which my cousin really isn't, she just chanels it). And then .....cats. I hope this girl is never allowed to own a cat. She might drown it.

I read each and every comment before mine because I HAD to know if that video was real. My mom has a cat. I needed to know it was safe from Debbie who wants to roll on it and hug its ears. . . So glad it's just acting, but it does sound a lot like some of the crazies you see on Animal planet with 67 cats in a single-wide trailer.

We just ordered pizza and I had no idea what I was going to chat about over dinner, but now I know! Cats! Wait, it's been done before. I know, I'll talk about pizza toppings! Because I love pizza toppings, all kinds of pizza toppings, and I just want to have all the anchovies in the world and roll around with them and have the baskets and... I have to stop writing because it's hard to type through the tears, ok, I'm done!

Oh, wow! Just wow! Please tell me that wasn't a real eharmony video. I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while. Next time some well-meaning person suggests I try e-harmony I will direct them to this video to explain why I am not using their site to find my soul mate. Instead I will go to the animal shelter because I just love cats and their little whiskers and noses and...

@sendintheclowns, you're right, of course. I should have worded that better. Allow me to try again: I have never heard of an A&P course that began with live cats. Ever. (Who knows? Perhaps such places exist, but I've never heard of it.) The cats usually are sent from the pound after having been put to sleep, as the charming euphamism goes. I'm not saying that practice makes me giggle with joy, just that it is what happens. The pound generates an income boost by selling their specimens to the local biology labs. Sorry, not trying to start something. It's just that the idea of vivisection in A&P labs would not only dramatically increase the general horror of that whole process, but would also be a bit beyond the actual point of those lab experiences. YMMV. Sorry for the total derailment of hilarity. By the way, that cat (?) with the wandering whiskers is kind of freaking me out...

In the '80s, my brother had a "Earl, the Dead Gray Cat" which was a flattened stuffed cat. It was always a hit at his parties. If you timed it right you could toss it up to the ceiling fan and it would fly off to land in the moose antlers (it was a real stuffed moose head his roommate's parents gave them o.O). Ahhh, good times.

@Aron: I used to work at soul-sucking animal shelter; we didn't call it "putting to sleep." It was "euthanasia"(Greek for "good death"). Ours went to a crematorium and generated no income that I'm aware of. It certainly makes sense for COLLEGE biology labs to make some worthwhile use of the sad losses. I'd totally blocked out the memory of my high school biology course in which we had baby pigs to disect and draw diagrams from. Looking back, it seems so pointless. One punk tossed a baby-pig nose around in the cafeteria and it was a big joke. (How many went on to be doctors of some kind?) ANYway, yeah--pretty off-topic, hardly fun, and not cakey!I'll shut up now...but WHAT "cat (?) with the wandering whiskers" are you talking about?

The dissected cat cake was gross but it did remind me of Nursing School A & P. Oh the smell of formaldehyde in the morning. Yummm. Nothing makes me think of sugar coma inducing cake more.

As for the "eharmony" video. Please tell me for the love of Jebus that it was a joke?!?!? If not, she should ask for her money back NOW. It will help with the future expenses she will have buying cat food, litter, and carpet freshener. Because she obviously is going to die alone somewhere and no one will find her corpse until the 1000's of cats she acquires start to starve to death (and smell)after stripping her body to the bone.

Let me add my voice in support of Aron's. The "CVT" in my name refers to Certified Veterinary Technician, so I know whereof I speak. CVTs assist in surgery, even closing for the vet, act as anesthetists--we do everything short of actual cutting in surgery. So I've taken my share of A&P classes. They NEVER included vivisection. EVER. The very idea was--and is--obscene. We take oaths, just like human doctors, and we take them just as seriously. That would seriously violate our oaths. Vivisection is on MY sh!t list, too. Know anybody who does it?

~~~Whoa, now--I didn't start that one! Look back and you'll see that I merely RESPONDED to an "Anonymous" so & so who BROUGHT UP the whole *phallus* thing (only he/she used the actual OTHER "p" word) at 11:21! I just forgot to put the quoted part in "quotes".All *I* said was that he/she WAS the only one with a dirty mind...(I can't help it if that sounded a tad facetious.)

No, I don't. But I know about something even (and unspeakably)worse that I am in the process of doing something about right now. Seeing as this isn't the place, feel free to email (address on my profile)me if you care to know. I need all the help I can get.

This whole topic is a bit of a downer but as the biggest cat lover on this board, I need to hear about whatever it is you're fighting for. Send me an email at john(at)cakewrecks.com when you get a chance.

The video...WOW. Now I must geek...Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that can only reproduce in the digestive tracts of cats. If it infects a rat, it slowly alters the rat's brain, making the rat attracted to cats. So the rat gets eaten, and the parasite gets to reproduce.I think it may also infect people named Debbie. Just sayin'

Wow...memories of the one thing I hated about A & P (which was otherwise awesome). Not cool to be presented with a cat like that when you have three live ones you love at home! The video was just over the top weird. I love my kitties, but wow! I hope I could do my furry friends better justice than any of the wrecks in this post.

I don't care if the video is fake. I like pretending it's not. Because I believe that there are cat people out there-- okay, people in general, who are just that crazy. It makes me smile. And lock my doors at the same time.

I was seriously scarred by high school English. I was expecting after the rainbow comment that she was going to declare that she wanted to take the kitties and wrap them in a pink fluffy cloud and push them around.

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